This paper considers the relationship between innovation, ownership and profitability for a panel of manufacturing … the link between innovation and profits separately for innovators and non-innovators, and for indigenous innovators and … non-innovators and externally-owned plants. We also consider the determinants of innovation over the distribution of plant …

on innovation output. Previous literature has stressed that investments into the heterogeneity of partners in an alliance … influence on a firms innovation output. Furthermore, maintaining diverse alliance portfolios has an inverted U-shaped influence … on a firm’s innovation output, as managerial costs and complexity levels become too high. …

success in innovation in the context of CEE and compare our results to those of SAPPHO and see whether any changes took place … strategic R&D and innovation collaboration is essential to generation of greater commercial success from innovation activities … innovation policies is inconsistent with the characteristics and behaviour of successful innovators. …